The Two-Photon Future
For the Obama BRAIN Initiative, UNC neuroscientist Spencer Smith, PhD, creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain like never before.
View ArticleUNC Health Care and Alignment Healthcare launch new collaborative, population...
The partnership will kick off with the offering of a new Medicare Advantage HMO plan for seniors in Wake County, North Carolina.
View ArticleThe Ras Tracker
For more than 20 years, Sharon Campbell, PhD, has been studying Ras, a protein implicated in 30 percent of all cancers. Now she’s on the hunt for alternative ways to shut the protein down.
View ArticleWar vet receives his hearing back
Dr. Oliver Adunka, an ENT surgeon at UNC Health Care, was able to get Dac Carpenter into a clinical trial that installed a sound bridge in one ear. That allows Dac to hear just like he did before he...
View ArticleMUSC and UNC-Chapel Hill join forces to test a diabetes outreach program
The Bamberg Diabetes Transitional Care Study will utilize cutting-edge iPad technology to explore the impact and feasibility of different diabetes interventions for patients transitioning from the...
View ArticleLargest cancer genetic analysis reveals new way of classifying cancer
The work, led by researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC-Chapel Hill and other TCGA sites, revamps traditional ideas of how cancers are diagnosed and treated and could also...
View ArticleJoin our #T1Dchat on Twitter – Aug. 19 at 1 p.m. ET!
Participating in the chat will be two diabetes experts and co-authors of a new American Diabetes Association position statement on the care of people with type 1 diabetes.
View ArticleUNC Lineberger researchers develop new approach to identify “drivers” of cancer
Eight breast cancer genes identified using new approach
View ArticleUNC neuroscientist earns NSF grant to build a better way to explore the brain
Spencer Smith, PhD, received one of 36 NSF grants to create better technologies to advance our knowledge of how the brain works in normal circumstances and in disease states.
View ArticleMany older emergency department patients are malnourished
More than half of patients 65 and older were either malnourished or at risk for malnutrition, study finds.
View ArticleBuilding up Medical Education in Baghdad
A new collaboration between the UNC School of Medicine and the University of Baghdad aims to build a better medical education system throughout Iraq.
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